1. Silica, Alumina, and Clay-Catalyzed Alanine Peptide Bond Formation

   • Juraj Bujdák
   • Bernd M. Rode

   Pages: 457 - 466

2. Conserved Gene Clusters in Bacterial Genomes Provide Further Support for the Primacy of RNA

   • Janet L. Siefert
   • Kirt A. Martin
   • George E. Fox

   Pages: 467 - 472

3. Rapid Rate of Control-Region Evolution in Pacific Butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae)

   • W. Owen McMillan
   • Stephen R. Palumbi

   Pages: 473 - 484

4. Positional Preferences of Polypurine/Polypyrimidine Tracts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome: Implications for cis Regulation of Gene Expression

   • Sowmya Raghavan
   • Pradeep K. Burma
   • Samir K. Brahmachari

   Pages: 485 - 498

5. Evolution of Orthologous Intronless and Intron-Bearing Globin Genes in Two Insect Species

   • Mary Gruhl
   • Wen-Yen Kao
   • Gerald Bergtrom

   Pages: 499 - 508

6. Loss of Introns in the Pollen-Specific Actin Gene Subfamily Members of Potato and Tomato

   • Guy Drouin
   • Mário Moniz de Sá

   Pages: 509 - 513

7. Codon Usage Bias and tRNA Abundance in Drosophila

   • Etsuko N. Moriyama
   • Jeffrey R. Powell

   Pages: 514 - 523

8. The Molecular Evolution of Visual Pigments of Freshwater Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae)

   • Keith A. Crandall
   • Thomas W. Cronin

   Pages: 524 - 534

9. Molecular Evolution of the Photolyase–Blue-Light Photoreceptor Family

   • Satoru Kanai
   • Reiko Kikuno
   • Takeshi Todo

   Pages: 535 - 548

10. The Evolution of the Conserved ATPase Domain (CAD): Reconstructing the History of an Ancient Protein Module

    • Jonathan C. Swaffield
    • Michael D. Purugganan

    Pages: 549 - 563

11. Tail-to-Head Arrangement of a Partial Chicken Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Processed Pseudogene

    • Richard Lum
    • Maxine L. Linial

    Pages: 564 - 570